The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-30

money can procure. In the matter
of education alone this is very good
thing, but then the girls must go to
fashionable as we'll as an expensive
school, where their set begins early
In the day with extravagant notions
of dress and pleasures. The older
they grow the more money they
spend, consciously and unconscious
ly. Life without the necessary ad-
juncts of Turkey carpets, silken d.
vans, Louis XVI chairs and old
Sevres china seems to them hardly
worth living, even when TRANSPORTED
by the existence of a certain vague
and mysterious something which the
poets of olden times called love, but
which is little enough known in our
advanced period.
Boston girls, in particular, de-
mand so much in a husband. An
cient lineage, good looks, an amount
of cleverness which few men can
boast, and a handsome fortune-all
these must be combined in one at
tractive tout ensemble before the ad-
amantine Back Bay beauty is OBJ
served to soften in the least, or show
a symptom Of yielding to tender
emotions. 1t need not be said that
suitors like this are rare.
BUDS GO A BEGGING.
Last year there were forty debu-
tantes in society, of whom Boston
averred, with a proper pride and re-
joicing, there was not one without
some acknowledged charm. The
winter went by, Lent came, then
spring and summer, and the annual
exodus to Beverly and Nahant found
not one of all the enchanting forty
either married or engaged. Now,
why was this? There is no doubt
that in some cases the young women
were too exacting, like the cele
brated Three Old Maids of Lee"
or that, in others, the gallant
cavaliers were faint of heart,
and dared not take upon themselves
the responsibility of providing those
Parcher gowns and Hollander hats
which enhanced the loveliness of the
adored ones to such a degree. But
the fact remains that all the forty
are still single, and that, with the
present season, another batch of
buds has bloomed out to take their
places, and to push them back into
the second row, in that grand ballet
that the world calls society. Are
all these pretty creatures to be laid
upon the shelf, as the saying goesP
1t seems so. Men are afraid of
them. Their price is too high. If
they led less frivolous and fashion
able lives, wore simpler clothes, and
learned to cook and manage house
they would not be whit less charm
ing, but thousand times more Sc
ductive and irresistible to the bach
elors about town with susceptible
hearts and slender fortunes.
MANY A GIRL
among these, however. is sadly mis-
interpreted. The realism of James
and Howells, the cynical sarcasm of
Thackeray, and the modern tone of
worl illness which prevails, all work
upon the mind remains as upon its
masculine rival, and leave it little
chance for any generous or unselfish
sensations. But now and then the
old love of romance and sentiment
beats in some tender young bosom
beneath the Partisan plaits and rills
that conceal its heavings from rude
world, and the Maiden Bostonian,
outwardly sicily regular, splendidly
null" longs and yearns to become
the heroine of a grande affaire du
ceur. In onr moment she would
forsake her ancestral halls for the
humblest Queen Anne to be found in
the neighborhood of Boston. She
would become suburban resident,
with all the miseries that condition
entails; she would hang Canton fan
mel portieres at her doors, throw
Koula rugs upon her painted floors,
dine off $l7 dinner set and answer
the bell herself, with the greatest
cheerfulness, for the man she
loves. But, unfortunately, no
body asks her to do any such
thing. The handsome gallant, who
evidently looks upon her with no
small favor, hangs fire, and will not
come to the point The splendor of
her surroundings fills him with gloom
and melancholy, and he never
dreams of the noble spirit of self sac
rifce which causes her to regard all
this as dross. He does not venture
to ask the important question, but
drifts into a state of hopeless bach
elorhood, while the warm heart that
turned toward him gradually ceases
its loud beating, and remains cold
and senseless in the breast of sad
faced spinster.
FAINT HEARTED YOUTH.
o, you men, faint of heart, have
courage to test the affection of your
own true loves Ten to one they
would give up all for your sakes, and
follow you to the ends of the earth.
The most Eighty little spendthrift
jade may turn out tender, thought
full wife, to make you happy home
and fill your life with joy. Try it and
see. Don't set all the girls down as
heartless, because one or two have
proved to be such, hut look on the
bright side and believe that there is
just as much true womanhood in the
world today as there ever was,
though sometimes it is hidden be-
hind cloud. AS for the
cold, calculating damsels, who
meant to marry money, and do it
without regard for any other good
quality in their husbands, they are
pretty generally hoist by their own
petard. The divorce cases all grow
out of these i'll assorted matches, for
there comes time when the naughty
danes realize that there are certain
wants of the human nature that
money cannot crafty. Then there
are wrang!ings and heart burnings
and bitter words, and finally resort
to the courts for freedom from the